The Hyannis site previously occupied by the Cape Cod Storyland miniature golf course is to become a mixed-use development of the very kind courted by the town in zoning changes that go into effect next month.

"It shows that we're attracting the kind of investment downtown that we want," said Assistant Town Manager Paul Niedzwiecki.

The property, approximately three acres at 70 Center St. near the Hyannis Transportation Center and the east end of Main Street, recently was sold by Steven and Susan Fedele of Marstons Mills and Steve & Sue's ice cream fame to Charles F. Doe Jr. of Osterville, retired president of the Woburn-based 99 Restaurant and Pub chain, which has four Cape Cod locations: Centerville, Falmouth, Mashpee and West Yarmouth.

The selling price was approximately $2.25 million, according to Jim Murphy Jr. of James E. Murphy Realtors Inc., who brokered the deal.

Murphy said Doe plans a 60,000-square-foot structure, with three stories of 20,000 square feet each.

With three acres, "We have lots of land to work with," Murphy said. Commercial uses would occupy the first floor. "We already have been approached by a lot of potential tenants," Murphy said, without naming any specific suitors.

The second and third floors would be residential condominiums with two bedrooms and two bathrooms priced in the $400,000-$500,000 range, he said. Doe, an experienced real estate developer who has been involved with building more than 100 restaurants, "really does see the potential in downtown Hyannis," Murphy said.

"We're trying to do the right things," he said, noting that they have met with Cynthia Cole, executive director of the Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District.

"We're ecstatic" that Murphy and Doe have shown an interest in Main Street redevelopment, Cole said. "Having the likes of (Doe) investing in Main Street, I think it's a real barometer of where we're heading."

She said she also was impressed that the developer already is reaching out to the community by meeting with her.

Niedzwiecki said Doe met with town officials on a preliminary basis , but not recently, and that he expected discussions to resume "fairly soon." Murphy said the project has a one-to-two-year time frame.

"Right now, we're just moving to permit," he said.

A Rhode Island architect is at work on renderings, which Murphy said on Monday were "just about ready."

Murphy said the planned building will be reminiscent of those in Mashpee Commons.

"My sense is that (Doe) totally understands what an attractive looking building is," Cole said.

Murphy said Doe is interested in another downtown Hyannis redevelopment project, but declined to reveal specifics.

"He wants to see how this one goes first," Murphy said.

The town last week approved new zoning for the downtown Hyannis area roughly encompassing Main Street, North Street, South Street, the Hyannis Harbor area and extending north along Barnstable Road.

The new zoning, which goes into effect next month, is in marked contrast to the land-use restrictions it replaces. The area's 14 zones have been consolidated and simplified into seven, and the intent of the changes was "to zone for what we want, not what we don't," Niedzwiecki said. Doe's commercial-residential mixed-use plan for the Center Street site is "consistent with some of the zoning we did last week," Niedzwiecki said. Murphy said Doe would like to donate to the town the lights that illuminated the miniature golf course for nighttime play.

When it opened in 1989, Cape Cod Storyland Golf was miniature golf with a message. Developed by the late Ken Shaughnessy, for whom Main Street's Shaughnessy Theatre was named, the course's stories bred not the 19th-hole lamentations of obstacle-vexed putters but knowledge of the Cape and its history. The course's theme was played out amid "Sandwich glass, West Barnstable brick, Dennis clipper ships, Wianno Juniors and Crosby catboats from Osterville, the Cape's famous dunes and cranberry bogs - all were telescoped into the layout," according to an article in the Aug. 17, 1989 edition of the Patriot.

Each of the course's 18 holes featured a miniature replica of a historic building - one from each of the Cape's 15 towns, plus the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard and the heritage-laden gateway-to-the-New-World (and to Cape Cod) community of Plymouth, each with an informational plaque explaining the significance of the building to the Cape's past and present culture.

Murphy said the course's model buildings were not destroyed or discarded in the course of razing the miniature golf layout, which is ongoing. They were claimed and removed by members of the Shaughnessy family, though Murphy said he did not know to what use they were to be put.

Efforts by the Patriot to learn the whereabouts or potential uses of the replica buildings had not borne fruit as this edition went to press. But Wendy Northcross, CEO of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, said when Shaughnessy built Cape Cod Storyland Golf on the property on which he previously had operated a parking lot, he did not think he was redeveloping it for the last time.

"He knew someday it would be very valuable land," she said. "Someday, he thought, he would be the one redeveloping the site." "My sense is that (Doe) totally understands what an attractive